News24 | Penguin numbers dwindle 16% as top Cape Town attraction slowly disappears
There's no celebrating World Penguin Day for SA's endangered African penguins which may only have another 10 years or so before..
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Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapted for life in the ocean water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life which they catch with their bills and swallow whole while swimming. A penguin has a spiny tongue and powerful jaws to grip slippery prey.
There's no celebrating World Penguin Day for SA's endangered African penguins which may only have another 10 years or so before..